For the past 10 years, Gourmet Traveller Wine, in conjunction with the Wine Communicators of Australia, have held a competition to find the finest new wine writer in the land.
For the past 2 years, I have vainly attempted to win. Twice now I have failed. This year, my third tilt, will be the last time I am eligible (more to come on that) so I really want to win, if purely to fulfil the mythical 3rd time lucky philosophy.
The challenge of course is coming up with a good angle. Just like last years entry, I am quite fond of the hidden joys of the maligned and I think I'm heading towards it again this year. But every year I come up with a whole list of ideas, and each year I dismiss them all as too broad/not unique enough, or realise that I'm simply not clever/knowledgeable enough to write about them. Such is the peril of the wannabe wine writer.....
So, wish me luck then, and hopefully come February 12th I'll be announcing my New Writer Award win on this very site (note the very positive tone).
But, in the meantime, have a squizz at my 2009 entry here which, rereading, was unsurprisingly a non winner...
The Justice Madison is complete!
2 hours ago
9 comments:
Oh gawd. Pick your audience....or your judges. Try not to put any personality into it either...that will help :)
GW
Really good article Andrew. Interesting topic too, and you covered it well
You write for your readers, Andrew, and bugger the awards. You win an award in this tight-arsed dried up chip of a country, and you know you're cactus. These people have no brains. They're already cactus: who ARE they, to be handing out awards? What have THEY written?
Thanks Philip and Mr Walsh for the very sage advice and thanks Jesse for the praise!
Don't listen to the grumpy old men. Didn't Campbell get a red ribbon?
Go Andrew go!
I wish you the luck of an Australian in a Winter Olympic speed skating contest....
;)
(not that you'll need it!)
Interesting post by Philip about your Guru in the WCA Andrew - "These people have no brains. They are already cactus. Who are they to be handing out awards." Going along with that are you?
Good luck Andrew!!
Thanks Marie & Chris, as to Anonymous, I was agreeing with Philip's advice to 'write for your readers, Andrew, and bugger the awards' which I think is an excellent sentiment.
Cheeky!
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